Mason Bees
I came across this and found it really interesting. https://player.vimeo.com/video/401368864
Author: Walrus
Author of "Interviews with Beekeepers" and "Healthy Bees, Heavy Hives"
How to Buy my Book
Richard Noel is a chapter in my book Interviews with Beekeepers was launched in the busy beekeeping season for many and in the middle of a global pandemic. What was I thinking?! It should be available at most online booksellers…
Making Queens!
Buckfast Breeder Queen In my area, we are entering the busiest time of the beekeeping season. Colonies are expanding rapidly, and some have swarmed or are about to. Spring/early summer is often like that; a massive amount of nectar and…
How’s your Dronage?
Drone: Makro Freak/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Drones are awesome. Everyone should love them, but they have had a bad rap. Many believe that they are "lazy" and all they do is hang around eating stores and contributing nothing much…
Any Beekeeper can make Queens
Queen honeybee by @squgcreative You don't even need to be able to graft larvae to make good queens. Apparently, grafting puts a lot of people off, because they find it too hard or they heard that it was difficult and…
Lockdown, Neonics and Queens
Source: Manchester Evening News OK, so we've been in lockdown for a while now. I only venture outside to go shopping occasionally and to walk the dog. Oh, and beekeeping, of course. It's never been busier in the parks and…
Zillions of other Beekeepers!
A Honeybee Even though I live in a densely populated country, there are plenty of rural places to escape to, and these are the places that I keep my bees. I'm not keen on the idea of having bees in…
Spring has Sprung
Image by Brent Connelly from Pixabay Spring is my favourite season, and spring has sprung at last. Critters are waking up and making baby critters; it's getting warmer, and if bees can be happy, mine are. They are flying like…
Getting Creative
Interviews with Beekeepers Cover I am no literary academic and don't know how much of this is true, but it seems that Shakespeare's life and works were shaped by the plague. This article (go on, click it) suggests that he…
My March
Lanzarote Coastline I have been keeping a low profile of late because I have a touch of walrus flu. I don't think it's anything exciting like that Covid-19, but who knows? A couple of weeks ago I got back from…
Give us a Break
Mr & Mrs W taking a break in Argyll Somebody asked me yesterday, "what makes a good beekeeper?" I don't know if I'm qualified to answer that, but what I said was, "If you can keep your bees alive from…
Nucleus Power!
Polystyrene Nucs (Denrosa Apiaries) A nucleus hive, customarily called a "nuc" is just a little hive. I have heard it pronounced "nuke" and "nook" and I imagine non-beekeepers wonder what weapons of mass destruction have to do with bees. Many…